1971 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team

The 1971 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (men's team) was the 31st edition of the men's team championship.[1][2]

1971 Swaythling Cup (men's team)
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China won the gold medal defeating Japan 5–2 in the final. Yugoslavia won the bronze medal after winning the third place play off.[3][4][5][6]

Medalists edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
  China
Li Fu-jung
Li Ching-kuang
Liang Ko-liang
Hsi En-ting
Chuang Tse-tung
  Japan
Nobuhiko Hasegawa
Tetsuo Inoue
Shigeo Itoh
Mitsuru Kono
Tokio Tasaka
  Yugoslavia
Zlatko Cordas
Milivoj Karakašević
Istvan Korpa
Antun Stipančić
Dragutin Šurbek

Swaythling Cup tables edit

Second stage round edit

Group 1 edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   Japan 5 5 0 10
2   Yugoslavia 5 4 1 8
3   West Germany 5 3 2 6
4   South Korea 5 2 3 4
5   England 5 1 4 2
6   Indonesia 5 0 5 0

Group 2 edit

Pos Team P W L Pts
1   China 5 5 0 10
2   Sweden 5 4 1 8
3   Hungary 5 3 2 6
4   France 5 2 3 4
5   North Korea 5 1 4 2
6   Czechoslovakia 5 0 5 0

Third-place playoff edit

Team One Team Two Score
Yugoslavia Sweden 5–3

Final edit

  China 5   Japan 2 Score
Liang Ko-liang lost to Hasegawa 21–15 8–21 19–21
Liang Ko-liang bt Itoh 21–11 21–15
Chuang Tse-tung bt Itoh 21–19 17–21 21–15
Chuang Tse-tung lost to Kono 12–21 16–21
Li Ching-kuang bt Kono 21–13 21–18
Li Ching-kuang bt Hasegawa 15–21 21–19 21–18
Li Ching-kuang bt Itoh 21–3 21–6

See also edit

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References edit

  1. ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
  2. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A–Z of Sport, pp. 699–700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  3. ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pp. 309–312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
  4. ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  5. ^ "Swaythling Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  6. ^ "1971 Swaythling Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-20. Retrieved 2018-04-26.